“Creating the Earth as a Backdrop in Gravity” by Blain and Walster
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- Creating the Earth as a Backdrop in Gravity
Session/Category Title: Don't Let Go (Gravity)
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The earth appears as a backdrop in a huge number of shots in the film “Gravity”. Framestore produced a high-resolution, photorealistic, three-dimensional representation of the earth’s surface, clouds, and atmosphere. This talk steps through the pipeline and processes used to achieve this.
References:
BRUNETON, E., AND NEYRET, F., 2008. Precomputed Atmospheric Scattering. EGSR 2008.
NISHITA, T., SIRAI, T., TADAMURA, K. AND EIHACHIRO, N., 1993. Display of the Earth Taking into Account Atmospheric Scattering. SIGGRAPH 1993.
PREMOZE, S., ASHIKHMIN, M., TESSENDORF J., RAMAMOORTHI, R. AND NAYAR, S., Practical Rendering of Multiple Scattering Effects in Participating Media. EGSR 2004.
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